I walked out of the office having made too many sarcastic jokes again. I sat down in the train, in time as usual to find a spot. Trains fill up quite easily around six o’clock. I was thinking it had been a while since a conductor had come to check my ticket. The man entering [...]

In the train, yesterday, before getting out, the man in the same cabin all of sudden spoke to me: “the world is small.” After a few seconds he continued, “all our lives we are looking for someone or something else, while we haven’t found ourselves. How can we look for someone else when we don’t [...]

“Drinking has so become the norm that those of us who choose not to, whether for a day or a lifetime, set ourselves apart from the crowd. If someone asks and I attempt to give an honest answer as to why I don’t drink─because I’m trying to lose weight, because it makes me feel out [...]

I’ve been following Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist blog with much interest. Posts like yesterday’s about “How to figure out which tasks you can ignore” only add up to this.
“If we focus on everything, our job is nothing. I dumped things that are essential to some jobs. But just by virtue of the fact that [...]

I have written about networking before and also linked to Keith Ferrazzi. In this two minute clip he explains how we can turn an initial contact into an ally. Very simple, but often overlooked.

He’s writing a terrificly inspiring series on Career Planning. In case you don’t know who Marc Andreessen is, he is the man behind Netscape and Ning. If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to his first part: “The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity.”
“The world is an incredibly complex place and everything [...]

While talking to Polle de Maagt today, one sentence sprang up: “If you know who you are it is easy to adapt, because you know your boundaries and so the environment provides no threat.”
When you are lost in identity, you try to hang on to whatever you have and whatever is foreign is a threat. [...]

While reading Rebecca’s blog, Modite, last week, I found her say this:
“I studied design in college and found that given the chance to design anything at all in the whole wide world, the canvas will remain blank. Told to design something with a right angle, or without connecting any lines, or including three circles and [...]

If you like what I said about networking, you’ll probably like Keith Ferrazzi’s book, Never Eat Alone. In this article, “The 10 Secrets of a Master Networker” in Inc magazine, you’ll get a glimpse of how he views networking. Or watch his presentation at the Microsoft Small Busines Summit, “Skills & Techniques for Building & [...]

I fell in love with a girl, but she remained standing. The contact we had was platonic but intense. Hours and hours on messenger and spent on phone bills. I cannot admit having been blinded but it gave me insight into me being in a manly body. I cannot live on the surface so as [...]